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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1902
Page
2
The column notes varied events from Cuba to Canada and Missouri. Palma’s wife travels to Cuba while Gen Bragg is named Havana consul. Suicides occur in St Louis and Kansas. fires and explosions injure many in Marion Indiana and New Milford Connecticut. Mount Pelée erupts as St Pierre ashes.
A cyclone struck Goliad Texas on May 19 killing seventy four and injuring eighty five or more. The disaster destroyed churches and hundreds of homes while a special train with doctors nurses and supplies rushed to the city from Victoria Cuero and other towns. Local hospitals and morgues were set up as residents aided whites and blacks alike with food and care.
In Beaumont Texas on May 19 a well dressed unknown man riding a horse was struck and killed by a Kansas City Southern passenger train from Port Arthur at 7 30. The engineer signaled but the rider stayed on. The horse died instantly. A coroner and special jury were summoned as identification remains uncertain until the party returns. The incident occurred on the city outskirts and baffled the crew.
A severe wind and rainstorm struck San Antonio in the early afternoon, causing extensive property damage across the city. Government property at Fort Sam Houston suffered at least 20000 in losses, while St Louis College and Hot Sulphur Wells hotel also sustained sizable damage. West End Methodist church was wrecked, private residences incur over 20000 in damage, and several injuries occurred. horses were killed as barns collapsed. continuing storm traced to Goliad incidents.
In Galveston on May 19 a confrontation began when Conductor E Mix tried to collect fare from a colored passenger at Ninety-eighth and Market. The man and three companions ejected the conductor as bricks flew and the brake handle figured in the disturbance. Citizens joined the fracas. one suspect, John De Bruhl, was captured, others escaped before officers arrived.
Dallas May 19 Detective Jack Duncan famed for capturing John Wesley Hardin reportedly dying at his Jackson Street home after a pistol in his shirt pocket discharged while he prepared a delicacy for his brother's ill wife. Surgeons fear a mortal wound in the heart region.
Reports from Merida Yucatan May 19 describe public uproar over Mexican capital papers revealing kidnapping of children for service in the peninsula. The state government is examining some fifty four cases. Rescued children are housed in a correction school where they are fed and treated and will be returned to families in Mexico City.
The New Orleans merchants excursion arrived an hour late in Jennings at 5 o clock. Local business men met them at the train and gave a quick tour of the city. The visitors praised the outlook of Jennings and appreciated the attention from merchants. They departed at 6 20 p.m. on their way.
A quotation from Audrey notes that a word or phrase as common as a hand can in a moment gain sharp significance and reveal a face almost unfamiliar, reshaping perception in an instant.
Hannis Taylor, minister to Spain under Cleveland, accepts LL D from Dublin University. Gen Eugene Griffin owns the flag sailors used to rescue Gilmore party. Capt William Driver of Salem is credited with naming the Stars and Stripes “Old Glory” in 1851 aboard the brig Charles Doggett, now exhibited at the Essex Institute in Salem.
A brief literary line notes that sorrows remembered sweeten present joy, attributed to Pollock.
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